Daniel 9:20-22

New International Version - UK

The seventy ‘sevens’

²⁰ While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the Lord my God for his holy hill – ²¹ while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. ²² He instructed me and said to me, ‘Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding.